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Notes: Actually I’m not sure what the hell this is. Hand-sized, brown, funnel-shaped, pale stipe. Brittle indicates Russulales. Stipe snapped off with handling and inside is discolored greenish. I snapped a piece of cap edge off to check for latex and didn’t get any, but I did get a strong, within-seconds bluing reaction in the cap flesh.

Definitely a new one on me. Tentatively treating this as a maybe-dried-out Lactarius.

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The two most abundant species in Zone 04 are exactly Pinus strobus and P. resinosa — the white and red pine mentioned on Kuo’s site. So we can add Ontario to Quebec, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Illinois as part of its known range.